^^^^The above reply by blackhole is how I have always done offline installs of .deb packages myself. Just got to check that list of depends and make sure you got 'em all, if so, this is by far the fastest way to install.

In point of fact, it's going on and is an epidemic, I have seen multiple instances of people with IT/software/coding jobs bragging online about how they don't really have to work anymore, they get chatgpt or others to spit out the code for them, they check functionality and for bugs real quick, then commit. And get paid a lot of money for doing it.

@ks Nice! My everyday machine since 2014 is a 2010 model Compaq laptop with a little dual-core APU, one of the hinges is broke, and the screen did some weird crap a while back like it's trying to become de-laminated from it's backing, so it turns the whole screen into nothing but weird colors, so I literally have to keep a spring clamp from my shop on it at all times so I can view the screen, lol. It came with 2 gigs of ram though, and I upped that to 4, so we're still rollin' and squashing up new stuff...it does take it's sweet time though.

Wife keeps telling me we can afford a new one, but i'm not giving this thing up, too much sentimental value, and it's been a complete workhorse.

Got a couple of desktops I built circa 2005 and 2008 that still work, lol dual-booting windoze xp and Devuan 1 with my first vuu-do experiments back in 2016-2017.

Ahh the beauty of Linux and not having to buy a new machine every 3 years!

2005, that would be awesome! But I think I have some to work on that are even older, lol, tagging this thread for interest, hope you get it working!

The world is not going to end any time soon my friends, take heart.

Been some issues with dev.devuan.org for a while now, couple of other threads on here about it.

Here's what's working for me currently in sources.list:

deb http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged daedalus main  

deb http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged daedalus-updates main 

deb http://gnlug.org/pub/devuan/merged daedalus-security main 

On my laptop, there is a switch to turn wi-fi on and off (f12), once turned off it persists through re-boots, and ifconfig confirms that it indeed disabled.

If you right click on the Network Manager icon in the tray, there is an option to enable wi-fi if not running, and disable if running.

Left-clicking that icon confirms also that wi-fi is disabled.

This all persists through re-boots, easy-peasy. Hope this helps!

Woo-hoo! Happy Birthday to Devuan and all the VUA's and admins and mods and every body who has contributed to this amazing project.

It doesn't get said near enough, but I love you guys, really appreciate everything you do, Devuan has been a part of my everyday life for some 8 years now, and still is.

UPDATE: Discussion of latest Vuu-do development can be found at:
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=6944

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Version 1.09 complete and uploaded, this contains all the bug fixes and tweaks as the 1.08 isos plus some, it's looking waaaay better. The version change is because I upgraded some 300 packages to the very latest available in the archive repo including a new kernel.

This should be the last minor version change for Vuu-do 1, if I find any more bugs or figure out more performance tweaks in the future i'll update the isos, and when FF comes out with a new ESR i'll update it then too. But they'll all be more 1.09's.

Next up: revisiting the idea of a Vuu-do 2 based on Daedalus

Posting this now, from Vuu-do 1.08-1, the newest iso I just uploaded last night. Burned a liveCD and used the "load to ram" option at boot.

Wow, this one is so much more polished than the last one, it's almost bizarre how fast everything runs when loaded into ram, no delay at all on first open of the menu and utilities and smaller programs, even gimp loads much faster than it does on my conventional install of Daedalus.

If I could figure out how to make persistence work on this (strictly with regard to all the different program settings, saving regular data is easy enough) , i'd run it all the time like this I think.

I uploaded this new version to sourceforge, but I left the previous version up there, I was kind of worried that I might delete it right when somebody was downloading, lol.